Answer me this.

[SwissMercenary]

Hitler also had his private army to bully the population into submission, and I can't see anyone around here raising one. After he eliminated his political opposition, thanks to it, it was the matter of the somewhat lengthy process of indoctorinating the military. Or, rather, the new, impressionate recruits, seeing as how Germany didn't really have a military.

And I have this gut feeling that if anyone catches wiff of PM Joe Shmoe brainwashing the military to be loyal to *him*, he might run into this small problem of non-compliance from it. I find it hard to believe that say, if Stephen Harper orders every black guy rounded up, and jailed tomorrow, that its going to happen. Now, if he spent 5 years working on the indoctorination part, then yeah, sure. However, if nobody notices a damned thing in the span of those 5 years, then I suppose we'll get exactly what we deserve. And in the case that it is noticed, he will have more problems then non-compliance. I'm thinking of either rioters, the police, or both knocking down his door. It won't be a question of a mob against an army, but rather a question of a mob against one guy. You can't turn the Armed Forces into the SS overnight, is what I'm saying. You guys might run things differently in the states, of course.

Edit: It may be difficult for you to imagine, growing up and living among, what were effectively private armies of the Klan, but we don't have such militia forces around here. Skinheads keep relatively quiet, what, with the part where they'd probably get a light tap with a police baton, if they try their hand at cross-burning.